Try: For most seniors medicare is the major healthcare provider many people believe they can rely on medicare to pay for any long-term care services however medicare generally doesn’t pay for long-term care medicare only pays for long-term care for skilled services or recuperative care for a short period of time medicare does not pay for what comprises the majority of long-term care services – non-skilled assistance with activities of daily living medicare pays only for medically necessary skilled nursing facility or home health care even then the care recipient must meet certain criteria for medicare to pay for these types of care most long-term care is to assist people with support services such as activities of daily living like dressing bathing and using the bathroom medicare doesn’t pay for this type of care called custodial care " custodial care non-skilled care is care that helps you with activities of daily living it may also include care that most people do for themselves for example diabetes monitoring some medicare advantage plans may offer limited skilled nursing facility and home care skilled care coverage if the care is medically necessary resource

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